Biography
Edgar King was a Black Atlanta worker arrested in the October 1934 raids on private homes. The Daily Worker, October 25, 1934, page 2 names him among eight defendants indicted by the Fulton County grand jury on October 23 for distributing insurrectionary literature under the law used against Angelo Herndon. Bail was set at $5,000 each. The article supplies no precise arrest or release day, conviction or imposed prison term. Its twenty-year figure describes potential punishment. Charles Weaver and Clarence Weaver are listed as separate defendants in the source.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 1: The International Workers Order’s announcement names this defendant in the October 14, 1934 Atlanta arrests and describes a national defense committee working with the ILD, counsel retained in Atlanta, and a protest to Governor Talmadge. The organization challenged the use of membership cards and working-class literature as prosecution evidence. This defense announcement supplies an arrest day where previously absent or only month-known; its general complaint about bail does not replace independently recorded amounts or later outcomes.
